Unicode and MS-IE 6 on Win2K

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From: Fred Ma (fma_at_doe.carleton.ca)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 03:34:53 -0400

Hi,

I'm viewing math symbols at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols
and can't see them all (some are just boxes). That page
says to check http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ent4_frame.html
to see my unicode support. I can see most, but not all the
characters there. Using Lucida Sans Unicode for Latin
based fonts didn't help (I also tried changing the
encoding to Unicode UTF-8. When I searched for
"arial unicode MS" at www.microsoft.com, most articles
regarding its installation requires that one sets MS office
or Word or XP. So for those of us who don't use them, I
want to install unicode for MS-IE 6 (on Win2K). Eventually,
I found myself at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prda_dcm_mezi.asp
where a table indicates that there is actually a multilanguage version
of Win2K. However, the section "Unicode Support" indicates that Win2K
in *general* uses Unicode. So I'm not sure whether I have unicode, or
if that is even the reason for the special characters not showing.

How can I find out whether my Win2K has unicode, or if I have to get a
speical multilanguage version of Win2K (not that I will, necessarily)?
If I don't have unicode, is there a way to get it? Is it really the
reason why the math symbols show up only as small boxes?

Thanks.

Fred
fma@doe.carleton.ca

P.S. Posted to:
microsoft.public.win2000.general
microsoft.public.win2000.setup
alt.os.windows2000 

-- 
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6

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